Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-07-22
THE NEWS IN VERMONT.
MATTERS OF INTEREST IN OUR OWN
STATE.


Haying is proceeding finely. There is
a great crop and it is of good quality.
Most of the orchards i'll wn are
bare of apples. The creamery makes
a ton of butter week from about 4Oo
cows. 80. Principal A. +. Leavenworth
of the Castleton Normal school has been
visiting in town. j. Murphy and
family are camping at the lake. Mrs.
Charles Livermore is very SICK with little
hopes of recovery. Rev w. ID. Smock
formerly pastor of the Congregational
church in this place but lately of Lincoln,
Nebraska has suffered a sad bereavement
in the death of his wife. He is left with
two little boys. B. L. Fields met with
apainful accident while camping at the
lake He had climbed a tree to arrange
, some ropes and sliding down his leg was
impaled on a hammock hook. DR.. G. j.
Russell brought him home Sunday and
he is quite comfortable now The
Seventh Day Adventists are holding a
camp meeting at MOnktOn Boro. o......Mr.
and Mrs II A. Slader of Bellows Falls
are visiting at Rev A. G. Fields. 49,. Miss
W G. Z. u. here..... Miss Mary l.. Will
son has recently graduated from the Cas-
tleton Normal school. 1t seems as if
the roads in town were never IN so poor
condtion at this time of year. Broken
cuvt fts, old ruts and cobble stones make
travel not only very unpleasant but even
dangerous -. Lowell Crossman has
lately received pension of $50 per month
and about 1900 back pay and Jay Baldwin
pension Of $50 per month and S4700 back
pay.
wINoosKI.
The citizens of this place are down on
peddlers and they intend to put the law in
force. Officers arrested one last Thursday
and they intend to arrest every peddler
that is caught in the village limits with With
out a license The Winooski and Bur
lipgton Horse Railroad company did the
square thing Thursday. After the game
of ball much to the surprise OF Wlnooskl-
ans they had Car in waiting to convey
them home, and everybody WAS delighted
to think that they had a chance to ride to
Winooski on the horse cars after game
of ball Some say that this little place
pays 30 per cent to Burlngton's 10 per
cent toward supporting the road. IF.
w. Macrae has sold his furniture Dusl-
ness to II. f. Clement
The Congregational church of this place is
still without a pastor. The pulpit has been
supplied lately by the Rev. Prof. H. A. 7.
Torrey, Rev Edward Hungerford, Rev.
Edwin Wheelock and Rev Andrew j. Will
lard. NJ D. Dr. Willard officiated last Sun
day and it is understood that there will here
after be preaching regularly every Sunday
morning. The congregation is gradually
increasing in size and the Sunday school
filling up. Christian people cannot fail to
note these facts with much interest.
W1ILlSTON.
The horse belonging to Mr.. Foster was
found the same evening it was lost, near
the horse car stables, where the gamins
evidently abandoned it. The boys reach
ed home about 10 o'clock with their en-
thusiasm tor base ball a little dampened.
.. Wesley Metcalf who was so seriously
hurt Tuesday, is a little better and there
is hope that he may recover.
ESSEN JUNCTION.
The "Edmunds' played with the Mont
pelier club Friday afternoon at Montpelier.
The score stood 16 to in favor of Mont
pelier This is the first game of the Ed
muunds this season. They have lately or
gan2ed and have hired Briggs and Burrel
and the others are boys from village
who play ball only for amusement and at
other times are busy clerks laboring-
men and students-Dr. c. l.. Loggins and
wife formerly from this place, now from
New York is back on a short visit DR.
Loggins graduated from the medical school
and for year or two practiced in Burlmg
ton.
RICHMOND.
Several cases of injury by the excessive
hot atLer Uccurred here, but not fatally
.....The nay crop has the appearance OF
being more than an average one There
are two silos in town. belonging to w. ).
Freema md jerome Goodrich, Mr. Freeman
is going to double the capacity of his tins
fall..,..H. c. Gleason has made eXten-
sive repairs on mis- barns and is going to
put in slO....The Richmond cream
cry paid 63 cents hundred for milk the
month of June .... Deacon u. ;. Whit
comb has returned home after "A protrdct-
ed outing at the Hot Springs, in Arkansas
and at Minneapolis. The funeral OF
Mrs. Daniel Read was very largely at
tended at the Catholic church last Mon
day. She had been great sufferer with
cancer. ..... Mrs. Leonard Snyder and
daughter from Mount Pleasant, Iowa, are
visiting friends in Richmond and vicinity
.,. Joseph and Stephen Ladd and tami
lies from Chicago are the guests OF "a
ward HllGreth. ..... Miss Hazen, teacher
in Mount Holyoke school, is visiting hel
brother, Rev. Austin Hazen. -. Randall
Wells has received 5000 back pay pension
and :8 a month for the future.
sHELBURN.
Miss frankie Burritt is home from Lf
Crosse, Wis, where she has been teaching
49,. Miss Annie Miles of Hinesburgh Is
visiting in town. ..... Miss G, j. Hoag o
Cortland, \, V, has been stopping at thu
Rev. c. f. Burdick IS. 49,. Miss Sarah ant
Clara Lake are at home from Sutton
Neb., whore they have been teaching
EAST CHARLOTTE.
Prof Colcord of Vermont academy, Sax
tons River, made a pleasant call at tn
Baptist parsonage and on c. &. Pringe
Esq, the other day. Some young peopl
from this vicinity will so to the academ.
next fall.--Louis Colt, who works 70
Darwin Foote, was overcome with the exces
siye heat Wednesday, the 10Th He lost con
sciousness entirely and it took two hours
work by two men to bring him to his senses
The superintendent of one of our Sun
day-schools gives interesting particulars re
gardng that sea serpent that some of ou
citizens believe they saw recently.
Swanton.
Hon. G. p Hogan and family OF She
don, Frank Plumey and family of Nortl